{"id":21641,"date":"2010-10-13T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T02:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=21641"},"modified":"2010-10-13T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T21:43:12","slug":"21641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/21641","title":{"rendered":"Gap inspires new symbol for recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/recyclingredo_mehallo01.gif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/recyclingredo_mehallo02.gif\"><br \/>\n<em>Before and after<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The recycle symbol we\u2019ve been using all these years could use an update. Something simpler, more modern, earth-friendly and all that.<\/p>\n<p>And what better way to update than looking to the most legible of the legibles, Helvetica. With all the Gap <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/21493\">hoohaw<\/a><\/em> this past week, I\u2019d noticed that the G actually has an arrow in it. Not a perfect arrow, but redrawing Helvetica \u2013 that would take too much time. No one\u2019s gonna notice an arrow that\u2019s a bit off, right?<\/p>\n<p>G is for garbage, of course. Turning it backwards means sending things back. For recycling. And the gradiated avocado green box, it just says green better than anything else can say green. <\/p>\n<p>Because people really like avocados.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Gap inspires new symbol for recycling\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/21641\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Before and after I was thinking. The recycle symbol we\u2019ve been using all these years could use an update. Something simpler, more modern, earth-friendly and all that. And what better way to update than looking to the most legible of the legibles, Helvetica. With all the Gap hoohaw this past week, I\u2019d noticed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,53],"tags":[121,58],"class_list":["post-21641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-thoughts","tag-design","tag-graphic-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21641"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21722,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641\/revisions\/21722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}